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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most telling attacks centered on the President's tax proposals. House Ways & Means Chairman Harold Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Something for the Boys | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...York, Pollster George Gallup reported, Wallace would now get between 13% and 18% of the total vote, depending on which Republican ran against Harry Truman.* In Massachusetts, a Boston Globe straw vote gave Wallace 11% of the total and made the state "a 50-50 proposition" for the G.O.P. for the first time since Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Look | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Quite obviously, not all of these straw voters were Communists. Wallace could apparently count on a sizable bloc of voters who believed in a protest vote-and to hell with the consequences. The real test would be their willingness to translate their polled opinion on to the ballot next November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Look | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...When the vote was finally taken, and the result announced-181 to 74 for the bill's passage-the comrades cried a last "Viva General Luis Carlos Prestes!" and "Viva Russia!" A few minutes later, at Catete Palace, President Eurico Caspar Dutra signed 900-A in the presence of top army brass who had reportedly strong-armed the bill through. Gloated the pro-government A Noite: "The beauty of it is . . . that within the law we were able to put the Communists outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Reds on the Run | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...where old friends and literary lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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